Gabi Motuba’s music stretches beyond jazz, transforming grief, memory and resistance into a spiritual sonic language rooted in black life and liberation

We need to ensure gender-based violence stays on the agenda beyond the headlines and the hashtags during Women’s Month

Hundreds marched to the Clareinch post office in Claremont to commemorate four years since her rape and murder

This is the country in which falling in love may be a death sentence and romance is being stabbed to death, remains dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase to be left on the street

Artists whose work speaks against gender violence is art as activism that shows the need for more than 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence

The government has pledged funds to fight gender-based violence and femicide

Through Umhlobo Wenene’s ‘Imiphanga’, writer Lidudumalingani remembers his mother connecting with the pain of others

In a world defined by gendered violence, what can we do differently?

Viwe Dalingozi’s story, like many others, is painful to read and write about. But in court it simply drags on like any other case. As we have written so many times, this cannot…

The spirit of defiance against injustice that was captured by the Soweto Uprisings in 1976 can still be felt among young people in post-apartheid South Africa

It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders

There is no evidence to support the broadcaster’s claim that its employees had co-ordinated a plan to botch the president’s speech

From Uyinene Mrwetyana, Oliver Mtukudzi to Xolani Gwala, Mail & Guardian remembers those who have passed on

"Women do not have the power to stop rape. We cannot simply break our silence or act in certain ways to effect change."

The articles ‘seek to impinge on the dignity of all the black women academics’ involved

How do the courts ensure proper compensation for the loss of Uyinene Mrwetyana and Michael Komape

Strong policies are not enough – we need secure physical spaces and societal mobilisation

Their inability to deal internally with sexual and gender-based violence cases ripples over into their jobs as parliamentarians

And where economic reforms are concerned, a slayer in shining armour would be welcome

We must create cultures and norms in all spheres of society that condemn gendered attacks